A Retro Nintendo Blog by Louis Zezeran

Just a quick one today! While repairing a GameCube I installed the top shell without leaving the door open and when you do this, you can easily break off the small arms which tell the unit if the door is open or closed. I turned on my unit and it went straight to the menu …

I have had a closer history with PlayStation 2 than I first remembered. I had one (the slim I believe) in 2005 and I had Gran Turismo 4 when it just came out, I remember because I could transfer my save files over from the previous versions. Then in 2008 when I had a small …

When I was in Japan I spent A LOT of time in Hard Off, the chain of second hand stores where you can find loads of great retro stuff at good prices, especially if you are good at fixing things or don’t mind a little discoloring. However they play that fucking jingle endlessly and now …

I am Australian but I live in Estonia and there isn’t a huge scene here but definitely there are some good places to find some hauls. Back in the day, Estonia was part of the USSR which ended around mid ’91 sometime and even after this they didn’t have much money so there were genuinely …

Even out here in the Baltics there are still a few good stores to get retro gear and in Riga they have a store videogames.lv which I like to browse when I am in town. They also have a new webshop and postage is pretty cheap to Estonia via the parcel service Omniva so its …

Remember this bad boy I picked up in Spain for 40€, with power supply but no controller? Well it was a bargain but it was dusty as shit so I decided to open it up and clean it out. Ni Nintendo usually screwed their shit together with these things called security screws. I dont really …

A friend of a friend just got back from living in Japan and he was so kind as to bring me back some goodies direct from the land of the rising sun. Namely I got myself a Super Famicom and a Famicom AV. A Super Famicom is nothing more than a Japanese Super Nintendo, but …

I got myself a Super Famicom and two controllers from Japan but on both controllers one of the buttons didn’t work. This isn’t exactly surprising given that they are about 25 years old, its pretty normal. So I decided to crack then open and clean them both up. Here is one controller on which the …

I found an old Sega Game Gear and a bunch of games in Ari’s attic which doesn’t work. It will take some soldering and hardcore shit to get it going again but that didn’t stop me picking up this from Hobby Gamer, Sonic 1. This Sonic 1 isnt the same Sonic 1 on the Mega …

I have been holidaying in Malaga in Spain for a week now and total, quite randomly, I stumbled across one of the greatest retro games stores I’ve ever seen. These guys have a motherload, C64 carts, Spectrum titles, loads of NES, SNES, GB, GBA, MD and MS stuff. Saturn games for my new system which …